How to Use sense in a Sentence

sense

1 of 2 noun

• All of my senses were on the alert for danger.
• We had a sense that something wasn't quite right.
• His senses were clear despite his illness.
• There is a sense of mystery at the heart of Take Care of Maya that sticks in the craw a little.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
• And in one sense, this is so absurd because what in God’s name is the point?
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
• Get a sense of the vibes here by checking out last week’s concert.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Most of us have never been there, so there’s a sense of mystery about it all too.
  — Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 19 June 2023
• In that sense, my book is a riposte to that kind of right-wing mythmaking.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• Over the next few months, the industry may have a better sense of which way the wind is blowing.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
• In that sense, beetles are a microcosm of the tree of life, McKenna says.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2024
• There should be a sense that the main part of the garden is for everyone, and meets all of the family's needs.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 16 June 2023
• But with no guides at the lead, though, there's still a sense of independence.
  — Erin Gifford, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2024
• That didn’t stop the Spartans’ Paul Alvarez from feeling a sense of pride.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
• Wilshire had just lost his father three months prior, and each of the writers felt a sense of purpose in the work.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2023
• So spare us any new fake sense of urgency on the border.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
• My margins weren’t clear after my last surgery so this is what makes most sense.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
• For not being Berkeley, Calif., where the streets made perfect sense and cars stayed put.
  — Yael Goldstein-Love, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• This makes so much sense, the way nothing has ever made sense before.
  — Town & Country, 21 July 2023
• That clarification makes a lot more sense on the heels of Diesel's new claim.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 May 2023
• The story ends with a sense of hope as the father sends Pari's younger sister to school to become a pilot.
  — Akruti Babaria, Parents, 5 Mar. 2024
• Now, a sense of panic is taking hold in the state's fisheries, which produce 60% of the nation's seafood.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
• As fiction about the pandemic keeps trickling in, even the lighter books have a sense of gloom and paranoia.
  — Lisa Levy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Tragedy rips the grieving out of the storyline of their own life, denies them any sense of what the past meant or the future will hold.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
• The story of America is, in a very real sense, the story of its rivers and the struggle to control them.
  — John Buntin, wsj.com, 15 May 2023
• The area has inner doors that divide the aircraft’s outer doors from the cabin, so the sense of calm remains.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2023
• With a sheer black bodice, her Dior gown brought Lawrence’s pinpoint sense of elegance back to the limelight.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
• But this sense of anguish may cause Hiroto to lose his way.
  — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
• In Oregon and around the U.S., there was a grim sense that our systems were insufficient to cope with the threat of fentanyl.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• The burlesque star hopes that viewers will leave the show—which is on until spring 2024—with a sense of joy and fantasy.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
• Consider what makes the most sense and head in that direction.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024

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sense

2 of 2 verb

• A motion detector can sense movement.
• The latest feature on air conditioners is a big new plug to help prevent fires. The plug shuts down power when it senses that the air conditioner cord is damaged.
  — Consumer Reports, July 2005
• She immediately sensed my dislike.
• The rhetoric was heated, but Guo seemed to sense that the scene wasn’t much to look at.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• Others are there to be heard, to be sensed, to be felt.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Donovyn Hunter, the star senior guard of the No. 2 Panthers, could sense it too.
  — Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2023
• Hafley sensed in the locker room that his players were down.
  — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• Laurie seems to sense that Michael is somewhere in the house and hides in a kitchen closet.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• These ladies can sense carbon dioxide and skin odor and use it to track down a meal (i.e. you).
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 7 Aug. 2023
• But the driver sensed something wrong and brought him to the gendarmerie police.
  — Nancy Ing, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Across the kitchen, his mother turned to us, somehow able to sense the misaligned cut.
  — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• But his friend, Joel Shoemake, could also sense there was more to it.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• From these, the whales might be able to sense her heartbeat quickening.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024
• Still, in the end the veteran sensed something electric.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2023
• But the Pacers sense that something has changed since their win over the Bulls right before All-Star break.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2023
• Laura, tell us about that closet door that made noooooo sense?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2022
• The crabs couldn’t actually get at them, but the spat could sense their presence.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 2 June 2023
• Around this time, Vitto started to sense that he was being watched.
  — Jeff Maysh, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2022
• The second type is parents who sense that something is wrong with their child but don’t know what to do or who to turn to for help.
  — Jillian Peterson, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
• The somatosensory cortex enables the brain to sense what the body touches.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• Is the chatbot going to be able to sense that, feel that, accommodate that?
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 26 May 2023
• Even other species, like tobacco, can sense and react to the alarm.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• The camera can sense heat coming towards it and then turns on a series of lights to try and alert the driver to their error.
  — Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2022
• There’s a large walk-in pantry with motion sensing lights and a grocery door that is accessible from the garage to the pantry.
  — Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• The interaction was pregnant with meaning that the boy could sense but not quite grasp.
  — Daniel Oppenheimer, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
• Called a Triton, it can be programmed to do this when its systems sense danger.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 25 July 2023
• Cook sensed her discomfort and sent the other players home.
  — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2024
• Human fingers don't just sense what a surface feels like.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• Roberts sensed a mentality change in Ohtani, as well, from the moment he was greeted in the dugout that night with a shower of sunflower seeds.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• This sense is known as proprioception, or your body's ability to sense its movement and position in space.
  — Colleen Murphy, Health, 22 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024